Who cares? Our Emma really does

WELL DONE . . . Emma and her prize computer, with (from left) Ray Coverley, past president of the Rotary Club of Oldham, Neil George of Bits and Bytes, who supplied the computer and Jim Stott of Warburtons, who sponsored the prize

When it comes to caring, Emma Howarth is top of the class.

Emma, (18), a pupil at Hulme Grammar School for Girls, has been chosen as Student of the Year by the Rotary Club of Oldham, and presented with a computer.

In school she has been a peer mentor trained by the NSPCC since year nine, and also carries out other caring duties. Outside, she spends a lot of time helping others and has done work at Springhill Hospice, Tameside Hospital in the stroke rehabilitation unit and helping special needs children at St Paul’s Primary School, Royton.

Then there is work for a local playgroup, acting as a volunteer for the Scope Day Centre for disabled adults at Coppice, and as a befriender for Age Concern.

And Emma, of Springhead, who will leave Hulme shortly to read medicine at Birmingham University, has found time to gain four A levels at A grade and 2As at AS grade.

She said: “I am required to do some community work for the university course, but I did go beyond that. For quite a number of months I was doing about eight hours voluntary work a week.

“But then I had to cut back when my exams were coming up at school.

“All the same, I was gobsmacked when I learned I had got the student of the year award.

“And it is good for the school which has won it twice before in the past.”